Homer’s epic poem “The Iliad” opens with a dispute between Achilles and his commanding general, Agamemnon, over two young women. Reading it centuries later, the writer Pat Barker says she ...

ADVERTISEMENT “'The Iliad' is a poem about how men fight for control of women‘s bodies—the whole plot is premised on that, and on the rage that happens between men over who gets to have ...

The Silence of the Girls is a powerful retelling of The Iliad, reimagined from the point ... Silence becomes a woman.' Two of the characters quote this to each other at one point and they burst ...

Pat Barker’s “The Silence of the Girls” joins the ranks of recent books by women that address the classical ... Barker’s novel, a retelling of Homer’s “Iliad” from the perspective ...

Many 21st century readers have noticed some delightful gender-bending scenes in "The Odyssey." The goddess Athena cross-dresses and calls every shot regarding the fate of the hero, Odysseus, while ...